Andy Burnham has hit out at the bus firms who fought a legal battle to try prevent Greater Manchester's buses being brought back under public control.
Speaking on his BBC Radio Manchester phone-in on Thursday, the Mayor said Stagecoach and Rotala were trying to 'protect their own profits'
He said: "Obviously we've been a bit delayed, frustrated, because there was a big mandate for this and two bus companies, basically just protecting their own profits in my view, delaying what the people here had voted for, what parliament had given us the power to do.
